Role Overview

The organisation is seeking an experienced Legal Head to lead all legal, regulatory, and compliance functions across a diversified, multi-entity group. This is a senior leadership position reporting directly to the Managing Trustee or a designated member of the Governing Board, with the incumbent formally engaged and remunerated through the parent Trust and its two founding educational institutions. The role's functional scope, however, extends well beyond these institutions to cover other affiliated educational institutions, hospitality and cultural-venue ventures, a diversified real estate and agricultural portfolio spanning residential, commercial, plantation, and farmland holdings across South India, and other affiliated business ventures and sister concern entities. The incumbent will build and lead a compact legal function, engage external counsel where required, and act as the single point of contact for all legal and regulatory matters across the group. This is a full-time engagement structured on a qualified retainership basis,



consistent with applicable Bar Council regulations governing practising advocates.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all legal, statutory, and regulatory compliance matters across the Trust, its founding institutions, and all affiliated entities.
- Advise the Governing Board and senior leadership on legal risk, governance, institutional policy, and strategic decision-making across the group.
- Draft, review, and vet all contracts, vendor agreements, memoranda of understanding, and legal correspondence across group entities.
- Oversee compliance with education-sector regulatory frameworks, including affiliating university, AICTE, UGC, and state government requirements.
- Manage legal affairs of affiliated educational institutions beyond the two founding colleges, ensuring group-wide regulatory consistency.
- Handle legal matters of hospitality, comfort-stay, cultural, and event-venue ventures operated under the

📌 Legal Head (Bengaluru)
🏢 Manav Sansadhan Vikas Salaahkar
📍 Bengaluru